Gontopus boroalis. 
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Maine (Lake Urnbagog ). 
1871. , 
May 30“ : 
June 10. 
Numerous, haunting the hilly pastures and v/-ood 
edges, percliing as usual on tho tops of the highest stubs 
We saw none in tho flooded forests about the Lake. 
1873o : 
July 31. 
Male. Several calling. 
1874. 
July 26. 
Still singing. 
Aug. 4. 
Shot a young birdfrom a brood of throe. As observed 
at Rye Beach in 1872, these young 'wero calling gh-phebe- 
air in feeble accents but in r.earlv the tenes n-r th^ 
adult. 
« 
Shot an adult still in very perfect brooding plu.- 
mag 0 . 
“ 8. 
Tho adults aro still in porfect breeding plumage. 
I doubt if they moult in tlio summer. 
1876. 
June 1. 
A male hovering v/ith quivering rings above his 
mate uttered a long—con fcinued cha,ttoring 'cry almost in— 
distinguisliable from tho spring song of Sitta carolinen- 
sis. 
1879. 
May 24, 
Several males near the Lake House calling from tho 
tops of stubs. 
CO 
o 
Fully as aburidant as during former years. Wo heard 
them continually yesterday during our trip up Cambridge 
River to the Sluice. In Belding’s "List of the 
Birds of Central California” , it is said that the hun¬ 
ters of that state, liken tho ordinary note of this 
bird to the words "three door”. Upon repoa,ting this to 
one of the guides yesterday he at once recognized the re¬ 
semblance (y/hicli must indeed, strike evryone) and fur¬ 
ther extended tho exclamation by suggesting the addition 
of the word "look" to represent the gluck v/hich almost 
invariably precedes ^he uttorence. 
This fine Flycatcher is remarkable for its fondness 
for some particular porch usually the highest point in 
the neighborhood. In the woods bordering tho Cambridge 
this is most commonly the topmost pinnacle of some tall 
fir. Upon a dead tree-top behind the Lake House one of 
these birds sits turough the entire day. This morning 
Ihoard him utter a note that I do not remember to have 
heal d before, it was a querulous, vihirring sound very 
like that produced by Empidonax acadicus. This nnt.^ 
is apparently most frequently used by the Olive-sided 
!i Plycatchor vrIiGii uv/o malos ai’s fightting^ oi* v/hon a malo 
; and fomalG moot—it is difficult to say which as tho op- 
I positG soxes ovon whon mated aro continually quarrolling. 
